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A 6 page paper on the strange mixture of violence and sexuality in the autobiographical novel by Sylvia Plath. The paper asserts that Plath was haunted all her life by the fantasy of rejoining her dead father, and unfortunately, it would take violence to do this. Bibliography lists six sources.
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raw wound; it is stunning in its ferocity. As much as Plath attempted to convince people that the poetic voice in poems such as "Daddy" or "Lady Lazarus" was a
persona -- it was not herself speaking, but a character she had invented -- the attempt eventually fails because there is such anguish and fury in those poems that she
is unable to achieve any distance from them. Turning from such poems to The Bell Jar, one is not prepared for the wry and yet ingenuous voice that opens the
novel. Plaths persona in this novel, Esther Greenwood, is a college girl in the 1950s, when college girls were expected to be much more innocent than they are now. And
as the novel begins, Esther is certainly that, although her voice matures quickly as she sinks deeper and deeper into her illness. But even at the beginning -- just once
in a while -- Esthers girlish voice wears just thin enough that we are able to glimpse the real Sylvia Plath lurking beneath the surface. And when we do, we
inevitably glimpse a woman who, all her life, has had a great deal of difficulty with men. Since The Bell Jar is very closely autobiographical, it goes without saying that
Sylvia Plaths life parallels Esthers in significant ways. For example, Esthers father in the novel has died when his daughter was very young, just as Sylvias had. In fact, although
this is not explained adequately in the novel, Sylvia had always felt that her father had, in a manner of speaking, committed suicide, since he died from the effects of
diabetes he had refused to treat. In the last months of his life, Mr. Plath had become increasingly withdrawn from his daughter Sylvia, who was passionately attached to him; in
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